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16154367

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
Epizootic rabbit enteropathy (ERE), a highly lethal (30-80% mortality) disease of broiler rabbits aged 6-14 weeks, first appeared in 1997 in French intensive enclosed rabbitries and is of unknown aetiology. Bacteriological, virological and parasitical examination of the intestinal contents of rabbits that had died either in spontaneous field cases or after experimental reproduction of ERE, were undertaken in an attempt to identify infectious agents that may play a role in the disease. Two bacterial strains, Clostridium perfringens and non-enteropathogenic Escherichia coli were repeatedly isolated at high faecal counts from naturally infected animals. In field cases, a correlation between typical gross lesions of epizootic enteropathy and the presence of the alpha toxin of Cl. perfringens was observed (P<0.0001; Chi-squared test). Although attempts to reproduce the disease by inoculation with different pools of cultivable bacterial strains failed, the disease was successfully reproduced by inoculation with one French and two Belgian samples of caecal contents.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1090-0233
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
172
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
493-500
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Infectious agents associated with epizootic rabbit enteropathy: isolation and attempts to reproduce the syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Liège, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Birds and Rabbits Medicine, Sart Tilman, Bât B42, Liège, Belgium. dmarlier@ulg.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't